Actually, Tinch has been a little worried lately. He found himself missing his purpose, the goal he was striving for. The tribe's various undertakings are thriving, and under their own leadership and guidance, they are gradually on the right track, even in the cold winter.

And it was at this time that he realized that he didn't know what to do, and that the tribe could move as usual without him. It seems that he has lost the value of existence, and Ding Qi understands that this is terrifying!

Or is Tinch already feeling proud and satisfied?

Or is he already immersed in the title of Aragami and can't extricate himself? Satisfied with what you have achieved so far, and feel that you have truly become an omnipotent "god"?

Joke!

If there is such a thought, it can only be said that it is all a joke. I am just transferring the knowledge, experience and technology summed up by countless predecessors of the Chinese nation over the past 5,000 years to use it, how can I take it out and show it off and become the evidence of my own merits and virtues in the primitive society period?

The tribe has developed to the present, and the total population is just over 2,000, which is an absolute overlord-level super tribe among the surrounding tribes. But if you look at the entire wilderness, it is estimated that there are many tribes with more population than yourself. Just from the mouths of Qianshui and Nushui, the population of that river tribe can reach more than 5,000. And across the river against them, there is the bear tribe, I heard that the population is even larger, and the warriors of the light tribe remain at about 3,000 all year round, including female warriors.

These two huge tribes are not something that the Ding tribe, which has less than a thousand warriors combined, can resist. You have sharp weapons and advanced weapons, but you can't resist the large number of people! The reason why ants bite elephants to death, Ding Qi deeply understands, and this has been verified on the battlefield in Somalia. Moreover, the other party is not an unarmed primitive human, but an organized and experienced tribal murder warrior with all kinds of primitive weapons that can kill people, tempered by blood and fire. If you throw too many stones, you can also stone people to death.

Of course, this is without adding horses and armor. A cavalry of more than two hundred people, in the primitive society, can easily defeat two thousand primitive warriors.

Therefore, Ding Qi understands from the bottom of his heart that this is not the time to be complacent. How many dynasties have hegemony are all due to the pride and complacency of those in power, and they are so happy that they are finally reduced to the promotion of other people in power.

Although he drank some wine, the slightly smoky feeling did not affect Ding Qi's thinking, but his thinking became more and more active. Not only did they blame themselves and deeply criticize themselves, but they also focused on the current situation of the tribe, and they had a clearer understanding of the future development.

Vigorously develop agriculture and animal husbandry, and raise the population and strength of the tribes at all costs.

How did the population come about? Exchanges, annexations, and captives!

How to improve strength? Vigorously develop the bronze ware, especially the composite bronze manufacturing industry, and strive to explore more iron ore.

Let's not talk about the population, just send people out to find a way to get it after the beginning of spring. Ding Qi's goal is to reach the surrounding areas of the Bei tribe in the east, the tribes around the Xia tribe in the southeast, the surrounding tribes of the Heishui tribe in the southwest, and the surrounding area of the Ugin tribe in the west, all of which add up to more than 10,000 people.

The vigorous development of composite bronzes is the top priority of the tribe. reach

In the excavation of iron ore, the focus should be on the Ugin tribe, where they have ready-made Ugin, that is, metallic iron, which has been verified by the Ugin tribe captives in Copper Village.

A drunken reflection has achieved Ding Qi's transformation!

Xiao Erhei returned, and immediately deprived Xiaohong of his position as Ding Qi's first mount, and he would be inseparable from Ding Qi every day, of course, it would be very humble if Xiao Cute was there. Xiaohong is a little unwilling, but who let it be a defeated player under Xiao Erhei? It had to become a deer's mount, and the pay was not low.

Although the winter is very cold and there is not much work in the tribe, everyone is full of enthusiasm to participate in the construction of the tribe.

Near the West City Gate, a number of houses were built that could accommodate 800 people, and these houses built with the red bricks accumulated before the winter were the same as other houses, with heating facilities, houses where leaders lived, and large shops where ordinary people and slaves lived.

The mining of tin and lime ore has not stopped, and the smooth road formed by the heavy snow has been used to transport the mined ore to the sunken caverns, where it is smelted and fired respectively. With horses, reindeer and snow ploughs, these tasks are much easier. It's just that from time to time, the ore mining work can't keep up with the progress of transportation and smelting, and Ding Qi has to provide more manpower to Yan and Baishi to mine the ore, so that the two sides can reach the same speed.

The smelting of tin ore has accelerated, and the production of composite bronzes has been carried out non-stop. Not only do they make a large number of long knives, bronze spears, and arrowheads, but they also make horse-related accessories. Such as horseshoes, bronze nails, stirrups, horse chews, etc., the consumption of corresponding leather goods has also increased a lot. For bronze axes, saws, shovels and other tools, a lot is produced, and all of them are stored in specific warehouses.

Among them, the rate of cutting and consumption of wood has reached a new climax. Not to mention the carpenters' group who consume all kinds of wood, especially the large wood, which is cut down and transported back to the tribe for storage and drying. In addition to making furniture and tools, half of the wood consumed by the carpenters was spent on making bows and arrows.

Jing had already completed the snow tool tasks assigned by Ding Qi, and was focusing on building boats and researching recurve bows.

In order to stock up on more meat, the Ding tribe hunted a number of bison in the fall, the kind that Ding Qi first shot with a bow and arrow. The horns of the bison were removed, and some of them were used to make horns, and some of them were used to make the material for the recurve bow. Of course, a significant portion of the horn material for the recurve comes from the horns of the large number of right-horned antelopes in the surrounding pastures. Moreover, the tendons on cows and antelopes are also good materials for making bows.

These are the materials and directions provided by Ding Qi to Jing, the sketches have long been drawn to him, and it is up to Jing himself to decide how to explore and make them, and Ding Qi only grasps everyone's direction.

As for the making of pottery, the tribe slowed down for the time being. But they didn't stop all, and for the time being, they were studying and making bone pottery.

Because Ding Qi made a new generation of iron-making furnaces, the furnace temperature reached about 1200 degrees, which gave the tribe the possibility of developing bone pottery.

The tribe currently stores a very large number of bones, in line with the principle of not wasting it,

The tribesmen sometimes crack open the bones to suck the marrow out of them. The bones that were left were piled aside. And Tinch will pick out these bones and classify them according to different herbivores.

After sorting the bones, these bones are fired with high ash, and finally burned into various animal ashes, which are collected for later use. Ding Qi only knows that the content of animal ashes in bone china is about 25%-45%, and the content of animal ashes in the best bone china is about 45%.

But at present, the tribe has no raw materials for making porcelain, so he can only ask Cao to consider using clay and bone meal to make bone pottery to see if it can be successful.

The pottery used by the tribe now is the kind of glazed pottery, which is smooth inside and out, and does not have a lot of exchange. The glaze applied was mainly grass and wood ash glaze, and the grass used a newly made pottery kiln to fire a batch of pottery similar to Jianzhan, but it was only successful once. The pottery team continues to explore and study the reasons for the changes.

Now, the study of bone pottery has become the focus of their R&D team. With bronze pots, iron pots and even copper pots, the use rate of tribal pottery pots has greatly declined, and its status has also decreased a lot. Therefore, it is also imperative to develop new pottery.

Due to the abundance of manpower, the number of toothbrushes produced by the tribe has increased rapidly. It's just that there is no suitable material similar to toothpaste, and Ding Qi does not dare to use a large amount of fine salt as everyone's brushing material, so Ding Qi can only use a toothbrush without fine salt to brush his teeth. The mouth is watery and the bristles are as soft as possible, so it's not bad to use.

Thanks to the tribe's availability of better bronze tools and the addition of some iron tools such as hammers, the method of breaking through the ice can only be described as simple and crude, and it is more than a hundred times faster than the previous method of burning with fire.

In order to supplement the fresh meat, the method of breaking the ice to catch fish is the easiest way to obtain fresh meat. Although it does not have the momentum of fishing in Chagan Lake, the large number of ice caves makes up for the lack of tools. At the entrance of each cave, there are five or six people holding nets woven with bamboo strips, and when they catch them in the hole, they will be thrown on the ice with one or two big fish of more than ten or twenty catties.

The day of fishing for all people is really a happy time. Except for the watchmen and ranch staff, everyone else went into battle, each with tools to fish, catch, transport and peel fish, and make skins.

The skins are dried over a campfire and then stored to be used as materials for next year's fish skin greenhouse.

The animal skins or fish skin greenhouses made this winter have withstood the test under the protection of a layer of reeds, and some of the credit plants growing in them are growing well, such as leeks and Chinese cabbage for seeds. I don't know how many rapeseed will be provided in the next spring, not to mention that there are still nearly a thousand cabbages in the field outside that have not been harvested, in order to see if it can survive this winter.

Everything is going in a good direction for the Tribe. Throughout the winter, we will have a five-day work and two days off, so that everyone has more time to relax and play. There is also plenty of time to play those adult games, such as kicking ball, crutches, swinging, etc. There are also martial arts competitions, ski competitions, and so on.

Before they knew it, they ushered in the second Spring Festival! Although there are no lanterns, the lively atmosphere is not inferior to the Spring Festival without firecrackers!